Solved Animated [.GIF] avatars in Kunena?

I noticed that if an animated gif was used for a user's avatar it would not show any animation that it should have. I was wondering if there was a way to make it so it could, whether it'd be with kunena directly or through a work around like a plugin perhaps? (Idk)

I have looked around and found no solutions, but I've also never really seen it asked about either. Any help would be much appreciated and apologies if this has been answered before.

G'day, Yuki, and welcome to Kunena.

Although I have not personally tested this, as far as I know it is possible, under limited circumstances, to display animated avatar images on the forum. We've discussed this issue before see GIFs as avatar .

In the topic I just mentioned, you need to have a couple of things in place:

(1) PHP GD library working; and
(2) The images must be the same size or smaller than the size of the image displayed on your forum.

For most sites, the avatar image is 64 px x 64 px. The image can not be higher than it is wide (square images only).

I have never personally used an animated avatar image and that is why I cannot say if this approach always works. If you would like to test on your website with different sized animated .gif files (try one that is 64 px x 64 px) and see if it works.

When you discover the size that works for you, tell the other members of your community that they can use animated .gif files as avatar images as long as their images do not exceed a certain size. If people try to use larger images, the GD library will dynamically resize them smaller and, in doing so, will break the animation.

When you find the answer, could you also write back to us here so that other people will also know what to do. Thanks.

so it HAS to be square?

Yes

Here is an example (50 px x 50 px)